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The United States has,... once again,... lumped North Korea in with a handful of other countries

that Washington says violate the religious freedom of their citizens.

Lee Seung-jae reports.

The United States has redesignated North Korea as one of the world's violators of religious

freedom,... making it the 18th consecutive year the communist regime has been listed.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that North Korea is among "10 Countries

of Particular Concern" for engaging in or tolerating "systematic, ongoing, and egregious

violations of religious freedom."

Pompeo said there are too many places across the globe,... where people are prosecuted

for their religious beliefs,... adding the U.S. "will not stand by as spectators in the

face of such oppression."

The designations were made on November 28th,... and announced on Tuesday,... in accordance

with the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.

Countries designated for religious violations are subject to further action by the U.S.,

including economic sanctions.

China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are among the other nine countries listed this

year.

Comoros, a southeastern African island nation as well as Russia and Uzbekistan were placed

on a "Special Watch List",... while the U.S. designated a number of terrorist groups, such

as Boko Haram and ISIS, as "Entities of Particular Concern".

The latest action puts more pressure on the Kim Jong-un regime,... with the U.S. sanctioning

three North Korean officials on Monday over their alleged human rights abuses.

Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. redesignates N. Korea as violator of religious freedom - Duration: 1:47.

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S. Korea, U.S. hold Joint Committee meeting of the Status of Forces Agreement Tuesday in Pyeongtaek - Duration: 0:45.

Meanwhile,... on this Tuesday,... South Korea and the U.S. also discussed the Status of

Forces Agreement, or SOFA,... which governs the legal treatment of U.S. forces here.

The South Korean delegation was led by the director general of the foreign ministry's

North American Affairs Bureau, Kim Tae-jin ,... and the U.S. delegation by Lieutenant

General Kenneth Wilsbach, Deputy Commander of U. S. Forces Korea.

For the first time, they met at city hall in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, near the base

where U.S. Forces Korea moved its headquarters earlier this year.

The two sides discussed a range of issues, including the return of the U.S. garrison

at Yongsan in central Seoul to South Korean control,... and getting U.S. personnel actively

engaged in local communities.

For more infomation >> S. Korea, U.S. hold Joint Committee meeting of the Status of Forces Agreement Tuesday in Pyeongtaek - Duration: 0:45.

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Travel Questions during the USCIS Interview with Dr Patricia Hernandez - Duration: 7:46.

This is teacher Jennifer here with Teacher Patricia and we're here at

CATESOL so teacher Patricia can you introduce yourself please yes my name is

Patricia Hernandez and I've been teaching citizenship for a long time

where do you teach right now oh I've taught in Los Angeles and right now I'm

teaching in Santa Monica oh and are you teaching the strictly citizenship yes

okay and are you teaching is citizenship in English or Spanish? English I have

been my past when I have students who are qualified they're going to be

eligible to take the test in Spanish then I put them in a small group and I

can work with them I certainly speak Spanish but for my group as a whole I

always run it in English because that's the majority number here but I always

work I had don't presently have anybody who is eligible to take the test in

Spanish so okay let us continue you told me a very interesting story about one of

your students from Oaxaca Mexico can you talk about that yes she went a little

over a week ago and she was what very well prepared

the striking thing her opening part the very beginning of the interview the

officer was very pleasant very nice however when they got into the office

and she was sworn in the first thing she did is she asked for the green card and

the the second ID but she asked for all the passports and so my student put all

the passports there the officer looked through the passports and said to my

student why are there only five stamps here and then the officer then proceeded

to take out printed sheet with 25 dates of when my student had crossed the

border from from probably from Tijuana back to the United States and my student

was floored when she came and told me the story I was floored and the officer

said these are how many trips these are 25 trips that you've taken this year and

she said my student just looked the officer in the eye and said well five

trips because I go to oaxaca and I stayed two or three weeks and the other

trips are because I'm going the dentist and I go and I come and I'm

not something very common that I'm very very San Diego cross over the border or

from sorry from Los Angeles of course for health services yes yes and it's

very clearly stated on the n400 that the only trips that they want printed or put

listed are the the trips that are more than 24 hours and so clearly she's going

she's going to the dentist and returning she's doing all this in the same day so

they would not be included on her in 400 then the officer right so she shown her

this list and my student is looking she's beginning to ask officer then says

she queries her she asks her your mother is ill why what is she sick of what are

her what is her illness and so my my student proceeds to explain what that is

and then she talks about what why else are you going in my student says because

I'm going to the dentist and my student never never takes her eyes off of it

arias more she recounted this when she came to class she said to everyone in

class she said I looked straight at the officer I was telling the truth

but I'm looking straight at the officer and I'm explaining to her so the officer

when I think I'm gonna take a second why is maintaining my contacts so important

oh because the officer is clearly assessing the student to see if she's

lying number one I'm the teacher and I'm just

thinking about what happened this is the first time that I have ever had and I've

taught for 35 years that I have a student who tells me that the officer

pulls out a printed sheet of all of their trips across the border I don't

have no nurse and I'm sure that they know because every time you come back

you have to put your yeah so they would know that but that I'm gonna say that I

believe that they had of the officer or somebody else in the in the in USCIS had

thought that she might be doing some illegal activity that's my assumption

they didn't that's why she was very very detailed about she said not what is

wrong with your mom and just what kind of illnesses does she have my MA is

right and then after that then my my student indicated that the other trips

were coming back back and they were just going to oh it was very interesting

because after that the officer said well are you the only daughter as if somebody

else should be taking care of the mother so that was another question in the

interview and my student said no I have several brothers but I'm the one who

goes they don't live with her just like my student doesn't live with her but

goes back and checks on her then so then then she justified or she didn't justify

she just explained you know I go to the dentist I'm having dental work done and

this is what I have you said very simply right no she looked at her straight in

the eye and she said this what I was gonna say I lost my train of thought

it'll come back to me. But I'm gonna go back to when you said a lot of times people

drop their gaze as a show of respect. But she held the officers gaze not as a

challenge, but to demonstrate that she is telling the truth. Yes it's true. And when my

student came back to class she reinforced that to everyone else she

said I never my gaze never left her eyes I looked her straight in the eye and I

answered and tell she was simply telling the truth but she didn't look down she

looked her straight in the eye she made a conscious effort to do that clearly

there was a moment when enough explanation had been that she had

convinced the officer and the officer said okay that's done turned over the

paper printed sheet turned it over and then she's persuaded to the hundred

questions now my student was still in shock because my student is really

really tense she's looking at the officer straight in the eye and she's

like this and she said I was frozen and so the officer the first question the

officer asked was you know what is the rule of law and my student was just

still frozen or but the officer had clearly been convinced because at that

point said all right now just we're going to the hundred question so she had

already said that before but my student wasn't able to make that transition so

then she did she just in us is okay it's gonna be

okay you know just right and then started with another one and then she de

freezed so she should be frozen or whatever but then and she was quite able

to answer the five questions that came up there was a lot about the in about

the application but none of that was different the most different part was

when I see when this student explains it there's a printed sheet with all her

trips just for this year thanks to the students of Safa Milpitas Adult School a

special thanks goes out to dr. Patricia Hernandez and all our friends and

colleagues at CATESOL please visit us on our YouTube channel where you will

hear the second part of Dr. Hernandez's interview in Spanish where she retells

the story with some added detail also check our show notes for more

information about talking about travel for your US citizenship interview please

visit us also on our web at US citizen pod com

thanks for listening I know you will be a great American citizen thank you so

much bye-bye

For more infomation >> Travel Questions during the USCIS Interview with Dr Patricia Hernandez - Duration: 7:46.

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S. Korea, U.S. hold Joint Committee meeting of the Status of Forces Agreement Tuesday in Pyeongtaek - Duration: 0:53.

officials from South Korea and the United States gathered on Tuesday to

discuss the Status of Forces Agreement also known as sofa which governs the

legal treatment of US forces here in South Korea Seoul's delegation was led

by the director-general of the foreign ministry's North American Affairs Bureau

Kim taejin and the US delegation by Lieutenant General Kenneth

wills back deputy commander of US forces Korea they met in Pyeongtaek south of

Seoul near the base where US forces Korea moved its headquarters earlier

this year the two sides discussed a range of issues including the return of

the US garrison at Yongsan in central Seoul to South Korean control and

getting US personnel actively engaged in local communities

For more infomation >> S. Korea, U.S. hold Joint Committee meeting of the Status of Forces Agreement Tuesday in Pyeongtaek - Duration: 0:53.

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U.S. redesignates N. Korea as violator of religious freedom - Duration: 1:49.

the united states has once again lumped North Korea in with a handful of other

countries that Washington says violates the religious freedom of their citizens

Eason J with the details the United States has redesignated North Korea as

one of the world's violators of religious freedom making it the 18th

consecutive year the communist regime has been listed US Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that North Korea is among 10 countries of

particular concern for engaging in or tolerating systematic ongoing and

egregious violations of religious freedom

Pompeyo said there are too many places across the globe where people are

prosecuted for their religious beliefs adding the US will not stand by as

spectators in the face of such oppression the designations were made on

November 28th and announced on Tuesday in accordance with the International

Religious Freedom Act of 1998 countries designated for religious violations are

subject to further action by the US including economic sanctions China Iran

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are among the other nine countries listed this year

Comoros a southeastern african island nation as well as russia and whose becca

stan were placed on a special watch list while the u.s. designated a number of

terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and Isis as entities of particular concern

the latest action puts more pressure on the Kim jong-un regime with the u.s.

sanctioning three North Korean officials on Monday over their alleged human

rights abuses easing Jay Arirang news

For more infomation >> U.S. redesignates N. Korea as violator of religious freedom - Duration: 1:49.

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US sanctions top North Korean officials over human rights abuses - Duration: 3:58.

 The United States has imposed sanctions on three senior North Korean government officials, including a close ally of Kim Jong-un, for human rights abuses and other measures designed to "suppress and control the population"

 The sanctions were announced by the Department of the Treasury in Washington on Monday and single out Choe Ryong-hae, widely seen as the second most powerful man in the regime, because of his position as director of the Workers' Party's Organisation and Guidance Department

 The US statement said the department is "instrumental in implementing censorship policies and purports to control the political affairs of all North Koreans"

 The two other officials named in the statement were Jong Kyong-thaek, the minister of state security, and Pak Kwang-ho, director of the party's Propaganda and Agitation Department - which is tasked with "maintaining ideological purity"

 The statement added that the officials "direct departments that perpetrate the regime's brutal, state-sponsored censorship activities, human rights violations and abuses and other abuses in order to suppress and control the population"

 The sanctions are, however, largely symbolic as they freeze the property or assets of the three men in the US and ban American citizens from carrying out business transactions with them

Inside North Korea: Everyday life in the secretive state, in pictures  Nevertheless, North Korea has reacted angrily to the latest US criticism of its human rights record, announced on International Human Rights Day

 State media condemned Washington for a "hostile act" that runs counter to the spirit of goodwill fostered in the historic summit between Mr Kim and President Donald Trump in Singapore in June

 The Rodong Sinmun said criticism of Pyongyang for human rights violations was an "intolerable political provocation" while the Uriminzokkiri web site hit back, claiming that "The United States and its followers are ruthlessly raping the human rights of other countries and peoples all over the world"

 North Korea says the US is making a "racket" on the question of human rights in order to put Pyongyang under pressure in the talks to rid the North of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles

 Those discussions have stalled since Mr Kim and Mr Trump met in Singapore as Pyongyang demands that it be rewarded for incremental steps towards denuclearisation but Washington stands firm on its insistence on verifiable, full and irreversible steps to eliminate the North's nuclear capabilities

 The US leader has claimed that another summit will take place early in the New Year, although there are no indications of progress towards a meeting

   Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, on Monday failed to mention the North's dismal human rights record in a speech in Seoul

A former human rights lawyer, Mr Moon instead said that South Korea "had a long way to go" on the issue and insisted that a formal end to the Korean War and a permanent peace on the peninsula is the best way to protect the human rights of "the entire Korean people"

For more infomation >> US sanctions top North Korean officials over human rights abuses - Duration: 3:58.

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Manchester City sign United States goalkeeper Zack Steffen from Columbus Crew - Duration: 1:49.

United States international goalkeeper Zack Steffen will join Manchester City from Columbus Crew next summer on a four-year deal, the clubs have announced

The 23-year-old, who has played six times for his country, will officially become a City player in July

Columbus Crew said in a statement on their official website that the undisclosed transfer fee is the largest in the club's history and the most ever received by a Major League Soccer side for a goalkeeper

Steffen said on columbuscrewsc.com: "Any success that I have had as a goalkeeper in MLS with Crew SC is a testament to those around me who have pushed me – team-mates, coaches, staff, family, friends and supporters

"Today's announcement regarding next summer is a special moment for me and I look forward to finishing my time with this club on a strong note

"I am eager to continue to put in the work to improve and be the best teammate I can

" Steffen began his career with Germany's Freiburg and made 14 appearances for their reserve team before moving to Columbus in 2016

He was voted the 2018 MLS Allstate Goalkeeper of the Year after keeping 10 clean sheets

So the big question is, what can Steffen do in between the sticks? Well, fear not as this video above shows just what he's like on the pitch and what City fans can expect from him next year

Of course, he's highly unlikely to replace Ederson, but he looks like he could be a very reliable backup goalkeeper, or third choice should Claudio Bravo choose to stick around at the Etihad Stadium